I’m Chloe, a proud Yorta Yorta woman, artist, and arts worker living and creating on my ancestral Yorta Yorta Country. Everything I do, whether it’s artmaking, writing, or curating, is guided by care for Country, community, and culture. My practice is slow, intentional, and grounded in the belief that creative work should feed back into the places and people from which it comes.

My multidisciplinary practice spans painting, murals, digital media, writing, and community-led cultural projects. Across all of these forms, I’m guided by Nanyak - our Yorta Yorta way of describing our ways of being, seeing, doing, and knowing. I recognise every individual and Nation, though, has its own words for these teachings. Still, for me, Nanyak is the anchor that keeps my work culturally aligned, relational, and tied to intergenerational knowledge.

Since 2019, I’ve worked across the Indigenous Australian arts sector in Naarm and on Yorta Yorta Country - from commercial galleries to Aboriginal art centres, always with the goal of uplifting South-East cultural practices and strengthening our regional creative communities. I currently work as Curator and Gallery Manager at Kaiela Arts, where I support artists in developing their practices, sharing cultural stories, and thriving creatively and economically. The heart of my work is advocacy: ensuring that our communities, especially those in regional areas, are seen, valued, and supported.

As an artist, I move between canvas, digital forms, and public spaces, regenerating South-East motifs, exploring memory and identity, and revitalising cultural practices that continue to evolve. My artwork is both deeply personal and inherently communal, a way to honour our old people while making space for the next generation.

As a curator and writer, I focus on creating platforms where Blak expression can exist on our own terms. I contribute to publications and catalogues that centre First Nations narratives with care, nuance, and truth-telling, and I build exhibitions that connect local Yorta Yorta stories with broader First Nations contexts without flattening our differences.

I’m currently completing a Bachelor of Arts History and Curation. Still, my most important learnings comes from lived experience, responsibility to the community, and time spent in the Country with the people who hold our knowledge. I travel when I need to - connecting with mob across so-called Australia, but I always return home to Yorta Yorta Country, where my practice begins and ends.